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Chilkat Blanket Designs
Chilkat blanket designs, called Naaxiin by the Tlingit, are crest compositions woven into fringed ceremonial robes of Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
Chill Guy
Chill Guy, also called My New Character, is a 2023 drawing by Phillip Banks of a smirking dog in a sweater, jeans and red shoes that became a viral TikTok reaction meme in late 2024, later copyrighted by its creator.
Chimera of Arezzo
The Chimera of Arezzo (Chimera d'Arezzo) is an Etruscan bronze statue of the mythical fire-breathing monster, made around 400 BC and held in the National Archaeological Museum in Florence.
Chimú metalwork
Chimú metalwork is the gold, silver, and copper production of the Chimú culture on Peru's north coast, centered at Chan Chan and dated about 1000 to 1470 CE.
Chimú tapestry and painted textiles
Chimú tapestry and painted textiles are woven and painted cloths made by the Chimú culture of Peru's north coast, centered at Chan Chan, from about 900 to 1470.
Chinese art
Chinese art (中国美术): the visual art tradition of China spanning painting, calligraphy, ceramics, and sculpture. Distinguished by ink painting, porcelain, imperial-era literati painting, major national museum collections, and a regulated art market under 2016 rules.
Chinese cloisonné
Chinese cloisonné (jingtailan) is a decorative art in which copper wires form patterns on metal vessels, with cells filled with colored enamel, introduced from the Islamic world during the Yuan dynasty and matured under the Ming.
Chinese guardian lions
Chinese guardian lions (shishi, 石狮; Western "foo dogs") are paired stylized lion statues placed at palaces, temples, and gates for protection and status; the male paws an embroidered ball and the female a cub, a tradition dating to the Han dynasty.
Chinese Lions
Chinese Lions (Karajishi-zu byōbu) is a pair of Japanese folding screens depicting two lions on gold leaf, the right screen painted by Kano Eitoku in the 16th century.
Chinese New Year picture
A Chinese New Year picture (nianhua) is a decorative woodblock print that Chinese families traditionally put up at the Spring Festival to bring good luck.
Chinese painting
Chinese painting (中国画, guóhuà, formerly guhua): the traditional Han Chinese brush-and-ink painting form on silk or paper, divided into figure, landscape, and bird-and-flower subjects and gongbi versus xieyi techniques.
Chinese woodblock printing
Chinese woodblock printing (diaoban yinshua) is a relief printing technique, invented in China around 700 AD and used for books for more than 1,000 years.
Chinoiserie
Chinoiserie (chinois, French for Chinese) is a 17th- and 18th-century European decorative style inspired by Chinese, Japanese, and Indian art, peaking mid-18th century in furniture, porcelain, and wallpaper, and declining after the First Opium War of 1839–42.
Chip Kidd
Chip Kidd, born 1964, is an American graphic designer and writer at Knopf, best known for his book jackets, including Jurassic Park's 1990 T-rex cover.
Chippendale style
The Chippendale style is English mid-eighteenth-century furniture named for cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale, defined by his 1754 book blending Gothic, Chinese, and French Rococo motifs in carved mahogany.
Chitrasutra
The Chitrasutra (चित्रसूत्र) is a Sanskrit treatise on painting that forms chapters 35 to 43 of the Vishnudharmottara Purana and defines the six limbs of Indian painting.
Chittaprosad Bhattacharya
Chittaprosad Bhattacharya (চিত্তপ্রসাদ ভট্টাচার্য, 1915–1978) was an Indian painter and graphic artist, known by his first name after rejecting his Brahmanical surname, chiefly remembered for eyewitness sketches of the 1943 Bengal famine.
Chōbunsai Eishi
Chōbunsai Eishi (鳥文斎栄之, 1756–1829) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the late Edo period, born into the samurai class, who painted tall, elegant courtesans and founded the Hosoda school.
Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga
Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga (鳥獣人物戯画), shortened to Chōjū-giga, is a set of four Japanese ink picture handscrolls at Kyoto's Kōzan-ji temple, made between the 12th and 13th centuries.
Choker
Choker: a necklace worn tightly around the neck, typically under 14–16 inches. Known also as colliers de chien; worn since Sumerian times around 2500 BC as amulets, popularized by Alexandra of Denmark, revived in 1990s grunge.
Chora Church
The Chora Church, now the Kariye Mosque in Istanbul, was the main church of a Byzantine monastery, celebrated for its early 14th-century mosaics and frescoes.
Chora Church mosaics and frescoes
The Chora Church mosaics and frescoes, created in Istanbul between about 1316 and 1321 under Theodore Metochites, are among the finest surviving Late Byzantine decoration.
Chöying Dorje
Chöying Dorje (ཆོས་དབྱིངས་རྡོ་རྗེ, 1604–1674) was the Tenth Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu school, and one of the most original artists in Tibetan art history.
Chris Appleton
Chris Appleton is a British celebrity hairstylist known for signature "glass hair" looks. He has styled Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian, and won the Daily Front Row Celebrity Hair Stylist of the Year.
Chris Cunningham
Chris Cunningham (born 1970, Reading, England) is a British music video director and visual artist known for Come to Daddy, Windowlicker, All Is Full of Love, and Rubber Johnny, plus Kubrick's A.I. animatronics.
Chris Killip
Chris Killip (Christopher David Killip, 1946–2020) was a Manx-born British documentary photographer whose landmark book In Flagrante (1988) recorded working-class life during deindustrialization in north-east England; he taught at Harvard from 1991 to 2017.
Chris Ofili
Chris Ofili is a British painter of Nigerian descent known for layered canvases using elephant dung, glitter, and collage; he won the Turner Prize in 1998.
Chris Sanders
Chris Sanders (Christopher Michael Sanders, born 1962, Colorado Springs) is the American animator who co-directed Lilo & Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon, voiced Stitch, and directed The Wild Robot (2024); distinct from the British filmmaker, security author, and Louisville attorney of the same name.
Chris Van Allsburg
Chris Van Allsburg (born 1949, Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American picture book author-illustrator, two-time Caldecott Medal winner for Jumanji and The Polar Express, known for surreal black-and-white pencil art and the hidden dog Fritz.
Christ and Saint Thomas (Verrocchio)
Christ and St. Thomas, also known as the Incredulità di San Tommaso, is a bronze group by Andrea del Verrocchio, made between 1467 and 1483 for Orsanmichele in Florence.